Process & Taste
Briefs, draft-critique loops, and edit passes that keep direction and taste with you.
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6 min readAI is not your muse
A generative model can flood you with options, phrases, and images. It cannot supply taste, judgment, or authorship. Why treating AI as the source of creative direction creates dependency - and how to keep it as a tool that reacts to choices you already made.
New to AI
6 min readDraft first, then ask for critique — not co-authorship
The strongest AI assist for makers is usually critique of a draft you already wrote — not a co-authored first draft that quietly replaces your voice. A draft-then-critique loop with validation rules and a clear fallback when the feedback is generic.
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6 min readWrite the creative brief before you prompt
Prompting without a brief is asking a fluent tool to invent your project for you. A short creative brief - audience, outcome, constraints, non-goals, and taste notes - turns AI into an executor of direction you already own.
New to AI
6 min readDisclose AI in creative credits without the panic
When does AI assistance need a credit line, and how do you write one that is honest without turning the artwork into a disclaimer wall? Practical disclosure norms for makers, aligned with authorship rules and emerging transparency duties.
Beginner
5 min readAn edit pass that preserves your taste
AI edit passes often sand your work toward the mean. A taste-preserving edit loop: criteria first, local suggestions only, side-by-side keep/reject, and a final unaided read that protects what makes the piece yours.
Intermediate
6 min readIterate variants without losing the direction
Variant generation is useful until it quietly replaces your thesis with whichever option looked shiniest. A direction-locked iteration method: freeze the brief, vary one axis at a time, and kill favorites that break the core claim.
Beginner
5 min readRefuse to let AI ghostwrite your public voice
When AI-assisted prose stops being help and starts being a public substitute for your voice, the cost is reputation, trust, and skill. A strategic decision framework for which surfaces may use drafting help - and which must stay unmistakably yours.
Intermediate
6 min readVisual references without style theft
Reference images and artists are how makers learn — and how generative tools get misused. A consent-aware, fair-reference practice for AI image work that refuses living-artist style cloning while still letting you study craft.
Beginner
5 min readGet consent before synthetic voice or likeness in a project
Project hygiene for makers who want synthetic voice, face, or performance elements: consent first, scope in writing, storage limits, and clear refusal paths - without a cloning how-to.
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4 min readWorkshop feedback prompts for makers
Unstructured 'be honest' prompts produce vague cheerleading or chaotic rewrites. A structured critique prompt pack for makers - clarity, structure, voice, risk - so AI workshop feedback stays useful without becoming a co-author.
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